“I was trying to file for unemployment and I was one of those 300,000 people that had been put on hold or pending,” Ms. Weiskind said. After a few weeks, she was distributing pizzas across the five boroughs, and even to a family in Connecticut. Customers place orders through Ms. Weiskind’s Instagram account, and then pick up their pies outside of her apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Israel Barranco Royaseli, a real estate agent with Corcoran, has always loved to cook specialties from his native Mexico. Even though he has recently returned to his real estate day job, he said that he intends to keep his flan side gig alive.

Source: New York Times June 27, 2020 09:00 UTC